Box-strap



(No Model.)

S'. C. GARY.

BOXSTRAP.

Patented Nov. 25,1890.

sPENcEnricARv,or

PATENT OFFICE."

BALDVVINS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM TLYANDERBILT,

OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

Box-STRAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 441,227, dated November-25, 1890.

Application tiled March 19, 1890.

serai No. 344,521. (No moan.)

To all whom it may concern: v Be it known that I, SPENCE C. CARY, citizen of the United States, residing at Bald wins, county of Queens, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strap-Irons for Boxes, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to a strap of sheet metal for use i'nbin ding the-*corners of boxesf and also for securing together successively boxes which are piled or placed one upon another; and my invention consists in a metal strap or plate constructed as hereinafter set forth and provided with the devices hereinafter specified, Whereby'the results hereinafter recited are attained.

Figure l is aview in perspective of a strap containing my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views of the same, showing a modiication of my invention. Fig. 4t is asimilar view of the same, showing a modification of the devices shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Fig. 5 illusstrates the application of a strap containing my invention to boxes arranged singly or in tiers; and Fig. 6 is a detail View in section of the fastening devices provided for my strap, taken on line Fig.

A is the strap-iron, composed of a metal band of a desirable length and width. At or near each end of the straptongues ce are formed by cutting the same from the body of the band and bending them at au angle thereto from one face thereof, as shown. The tongues which are adjacent to the extremities of the strap may advantageously be made somewhat longer than those formed nearest to the middle of the strap-iron, and it is preferable to cut the tongues \froin the band-body at the opposite ends of the strap with their longitudinal axes at rightangles to 'each other, so that when they are bent at an angle to aface of the strap their planes will be at right angles to each other at the opposite ends of the. strap, as shown plainly in Fig. l. j

Each tongue is given a longitudinal corrugation a.,which has a taper corresponding to the taper of the tongues, as shown, and these corrugations begin within the body of the tongue and somewhat back from or above the base of the tongue, so as to leave a portion of the body of the vtongue at its base, Where it lunites with the band-body, plane-faced and without corrugation. The corrugations desirably extend to and terminate at lthe point a2of each tongue, as shown. j

The strap A is in use bent to substantially a right angle about midway of its length, as illustrated at A, Fig. 5, with the tongues a on the inner face ot the angle-plate thus formed. The tongues may now be driven iutetheside or top of a box, upon the corner or angle of which the bent strap is placeds illustrated in Fig. 5, thus serving to bind or re-enforcathe box-corners. While the corrugation'a in each tongue serves to stilen the tongue, so that it may be driven into the wooden wall of'the box effectively, the planefaced neck at the base of each tongue enables the tongue to bend or yield atwise at its juncture with the band, so as to enter thel the strap are at right angles to each other,. I

the tongues will, by entering the box-Walls in different directions relatively to the grain of the wood at the opposite ends of' the strap, be more effectively seated in the box-Walls.

In further carrying out my invention I combine with the strap A, having integral with it the described tongues rt by said tongues being cut from and bent to project from the strapbody, as set forth, a plate B, extending from the strap-bod y and adapted to be secured to a surface or object to which it is itted. This plate B may extend laterally from one edge of the strap, as shown in Fig. 4, and be provided with an aperture b at or near its outer end or side, whereby when the strap is seated upon and attached to a box-wall or other object by its integral tongues a, either atwise or bent -angularly upon itself, the plate B may be attached by-a nail or similar device passed .through the aperture b to an adj acont object-as, for example, a contiguous box or package-or the plate B may, and preferably should, extendlaterally across orbetween the side edges of the strap and project angularly and desirably at a right angle to4 that face of and bent to project from a face of the plate,`

as shown.

The strap A and plate B may be formed integral in one piece by slitting the straplon'gitudinally from one end toa point more or less near the opposite end and then bending the two parts of the slitted portion reversely at right angles to the unslitted end, as shown in Fig. 2, whereby the halves of the slitted portion will constitute the strap-body and may have the tongues aeut therefrom, as described, and the unslitted portion will conf stitute the` plate B, having its tongues bf, as shown; or the plate B may be constituted by cutting the same on three sides from the body of the plate A and bendingit at right angles to the strap at its remaining edge, as illustrated in Fig. 3.

The strap and plate shown in Figs. 2 and 3 are specially adapted for use in binding together boxes which are arranged one upon another in.v tiers, as illustrated in Fig. 5. The plate B is placed between the opposed faces or walls of two boxes and held in position by means of the tongues b or nails, as the case maybe, driven into a box-wall, as shown, and

the opposite ends of the strap are vsecured to the walls, respectively, of the two adjacent 40` Y Y Y, t 'lateralmoveinet'of the-boxes one upon anboxes. 3y means of the strap and its plate applied as described to the several adjacent cornersV of two boxes throughout a tier o'r tiers of boxes all the boxes in a pile thereof may be secured together, so as to constitute a singlev package capable,of beinghandled singly. 'lhe plates l will Y'operate to prevent other throughout the' series, Yand the strapbodies will serve to bind the adjacent boxes together throughout said series. lhe tongues which are formed in the strap-body may be formed only at the strap ends and may beV dispensed withat the central portion of the strap,\\'l1ere the angular bend is 'made therein to fitlhe strap to a box-corner, orwhere the plato l joins the strap; or in place of said tongues at such central portion ot' the strapi oily apertures 712 may be formed in the strap im lhcpassage ol fastening-nails atsnch por tima nl' the strap-body.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is y 1. A strap-iron for boxes, composed of a metal band provided with Vtongues eut from the body of the band aud bent angularly to a face thereof and corrugations in said tongues extending longitudinally thereof from a point above the base end of said tongues'to and terminating at or nearthe extremity of said tongues, whereby a plane-faced neck is provided-on the tongue where it joins the band.

body, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A strapiron for boxes, composed of a metal band provided with tongues cut from the body of the band between .its side edges and bent angularly to a face 'of the band at each end thereof, with the planes of Vthe tongues at one end of the band at right angles tothe planes of the tongues at` the other end of the band, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

A-str'ap-ron for boxes, composed of a metal band provided with tongues cut from the body of the band and bent angularly to a face of the band, andametal plate integral with and projecting from said band, whereby while the band-bod y may be attached to one or more lnoxesor bjects the plate maybe secured to or upon one of the same or a separate box or object substantially as and for the purpose set fort-h. v at. A strap-.iron fori) boxes, composed ot' a metal band provided with tongues cut from and turned angularly to Ia vface' of the body of the band, and a plate integral. with the band and extending'therefrom@between the side edges thereof, witlrits plane at an angle to that ofthe band, substantially as and for the v purpose set forth.

5. A strap-iron for boxes, composed of a metal band anda plate integral with, .extending laterally across, and projecting from a faecef th? band, said band on the face thereof from which said plate projects, and

said plate being provided' with toligucs cut, respectively, from the body of said band and plate and bent at an angle' thereto, respectively, substantially as and lorthepurpose set forth.

. SllCl'UlClt (l. VARY. Witnesses:

A. S. Viren,

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